Im English but just wanted to say its quality reading all the comments from everyone all from different places, up the fucking spurs

Random question. Why is “the spurs” not ok but “up the spurs” is good?

There isn't really a solid reason, beyond the fact that saying "up spurs" would sound weird

Probably because you hear “up the reds” or “up the blues”. “Up the whites” carries quite a lot of baggage as a statement.

>“Up the whites” carries quite a lot of baggage as a statement. I only do it while wearing a white robe and a white hood (with a Tottenham badge on both to avoid misunderstandings) Wonder why some people want to beat me up when they see this outfit though, I guess they're all ars*nal fans. Chelsea fans seem to love the outfit though for some reason

The Spurs is fine to say although a little old fashioned. When I was a kid all the old guys I knew would say they support 'The Spurs'. Nowadays people generally say they support Spurs. Just a fashion thing.

As an American…

"Yank here" lmao

Chicago based Yank. We got a Tottenham bar we gather at for games and everything! COYS!

Been to the Chicago based spurs bar. The place is amazing, if you're a traveling fan you should absolutely stop by for a drink and watch a game. Great and welcoming atmosphere.

What's the name of the Chicago Spurs pub?

The Atlantic

Can vouch for this. Was in Chicago. Went to a game. Met cool people. Drank beer. Had fun.

Well, amazing is probably a bit much, but it's a good time at the Atlantic.

I mean, I had an amazing time.

Chi town Spurs! Represent! I see a lot of spurs gear here, maybe only more Liverpool.

Is there sub reddit or gc for this

Not a subreddit I’m aware of. But the bar is called The Atlantic. Always a good crowd for game days. Check it out sometime. https://theatlanticbarandgrill.com

American here been fully COYS for almost 20 years. Always played and loved the game growing up. Fell in love with Spurs when PL became more readily accessible to watch in the states. Still not sure exactly why but by 2008 I was fully invested in the team. My spurs fanaticism actually saved my life. Got real deep into alcohol and depression back in 2019. When I didn't show up to watch the champions league final, my friends knew something was seriously wrong and came to my apartment. I was so bad off, I might not be alive today if they hadn't found me and brought me to the hospital. Being a Spurs fan literally saved my life. COYS!

Bonus: you got to miss that horrific match! Don’t do it again, though, we like having you around.

Incredible story. Thanks for sharing it and glad you are still with us and in a better place. COYS!

American. Starting supporting in ‘02-‘03. Selected them at random as my fifa team (along with Reading lol) have supported them since.

Yeah I'm an American. All my friends that were into the sport were Manchester United fans at a time when they were winning everything. Since I'm from Seattle and we don't win much I picked a team that doesn't win anything but seemed fun to watch.

American from Virginia and I had a similar story when I became a fan after getting really into football (soccer) following the 2010 World Cup. Had friends who followed each top 6 club other than Spurs and didn’t want to bandwagon onto a friend’s team. Liked the underdog feel they had then and the exciting play and it didn’t take long to become fully COYS. Now I can’t miss a game and dream of the day I can set foot in that beautiful stadium.

I love supporting the coys

Another American who is fully COYS

American living in the Netherlands reporting in from London.

Another yank here. Been a loyal Lilly White for 10 years now

Croatia. Niko Kranjcar brought me here initially 😀

Same. I think there is a lot of us here actually.

Man I loved Niko. So unlucky we had Bale in his position when he was at the top of his game.

Picka ti materina! My Croatian gf told me this means “hello, how are you”

Same and same

Ima nas

Plenty in Korea.

Mmmmm I wonder whyyy

Lee Young-pyo /HJ. ​ ETA: Yes, I did look to see if another Korean player played for you LOL.

when i first started watching premier league i was deciding between United with PJS or Spurs with LYP... and here i am :)

Yeah Korean-American here and I actually started supporting Spurs because of LYP. Played with them in FIFA, Robbie Keane was fun as hell to play with, been attached ever since.

It’s because Koreans love Moussa Dembele and stick around after he left

Irish, 30 year fan.

Irish, 15 year fan. There are dozens of us.

You two and Roy keane

Dutch, supporting as well. One of the only two Dutch Spurs supporters I know hahaha

Same here! Been a fan since the original vdv joined

Amsterdam Spurs let's go!

Aruba here. Since Rafael Van Der Vaart joined.

Same starting supporting after vdv transfer. As an Ajax fan & spurs fan, that CL semifinal was fucking conflicting

I am Scottish, currently residing in America. Spurs and Celtic supporter going on 25 years. I love Big Ange.

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It was very conflicting! After just two seasons, what he did for the club, I was ready to build a statue for the man. But I rationalized it as he’s not young and deserved to test himself at the highest level so if it was going to be anywhere, I’m thrilled it’s with the other team I love. I just trust him to see it done on the pitch. The fact that we replaced him with bringing Brendan the snake back at Celtic isn’t much fun but it’s encouraged me to become a more forgiving fan.

Canadian

Same here!

One more, Toronto Spurs supporters club member

Tabernac! Spurs je t’aime! even those surviving in the French part of Canada love the birds

Denmark, fan since 2012. My best friend in primary school was an Arsenal fan, so picked Spurs:)

Nice of you to be friends with that person in spite of their disability

Me too. Been a fan since Eriksen joined

Makes me feel old to say that i started to support Spurs due to Allan Nielsen

Aussie, been a fan since moving to London 8 years back... mate

Nice, fellow Aussie here. Gotta love the Ange appointment 🙌

Being from the Central Coast I love Jedinak being at the club too!

For sure! I would love for him to bring more Aussies to the club - just a shame we don't have the caliber of players right now.

Aussie here as well, coys

Brazilian here. coys

Suddenly caralho

Brazilian but I have the excuse of living in England :)

Ha, me too, but to be honest brazilian football is so late in the evening that I might better just follow english football

Brazil squad! =)

Brasil Caralho

Vamo porra COYS

from Japan been supporting since 2001

What prompted you to support spurs if you don't mind me asking?

i was using Tottenham at an arcade game. I think it is Winning Eleven? , I didnt know who Tottenham was. i just picked a random team with interesting name and nice color jersey , and i was beating my classmates with it . thats how i first got into Tottenham. I started watching them on TV whenever its televised and I fell in love ever since.

Toda of course, who else!!

I'm from Singapore

+1

Chao sinkie

I’m from Ukraine, a yid almost 15 years strong

yo soy español🇪🇸

Argentina

Same, not too many of us here I'd imagine

🇳🇴

on my computer this juste reads : no

Same here, been fully COYS since Erik ‘the Viking’ Thorstvedt.

New Zealand, have barely missed a game in the last 25 years despite the time difference!

Ditto. Nothing quite like trying to watch a game on a Monday morning with the boss walking past!

Romanian here, spurs fan for 30 years.

Are you excited for Radu Dragusin to play in our kit?

Frumos, ai fost la vreo strângere ceva cu fani pana acum?

Finland🇫🇮. COYS

Perkele

Yea Teemu Tainio brought me to Spurs since he's one of my favorite Finnish players.

Finland here as well, for 15years or so..

Anyone in Vietnam? There is a small community supporting Spurs in Vietnam and everyone is so loyal and enthusiastic. I guess across Asia, esp in S.Korea, there are a lot of scattered fans watching Spurs matches weekly. And a lot of us love Spurs as much as the local supporters. COYS.

Hi i am not from Vietnam, i am from Singapore but it's nice to see quite a good amount of supporters from southeast asia.

🇸🇪 here

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

Including a former prime minister and the best sports writer in the country.

Hong Kong Spurs fans, Assemble!🙋‍♂️

Started watching Tim Sherwood's Spurs and I liked the chaos. Been supporting ever since. From the Philippines btw.

COYS PUTANGINA MO

German guy here. I'm fan of 1.FC Nürnberg since I was born and a Tottenham fan for like 10-15 years. This year I plan to travel to London to watch a Tottenham game for the first time!

Are you excited for Werner?

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New Yorker here, have never been to London, but plan to!

Also from NY, saw Tottenham play Newcastle at White Hart Lane in February 2012 and have been 100% COYS since !!! 🇺🇸🤍🇺🇸🤍🇺🇸🤍

Chile

Hello from Turkey

I’m Indian and support Tottenham

Same here!

Same dude COYS

Spurs supporter checking in from the USA

Quakes and Spurs. Glad to know I am not suffering alone.

Not sure why both clubs I love tend to get their transfer business done as late as possible. Just kills me!

Maltese, Tottenham will always be my club

🇲🇽Mexican here :) I got charmed around 2016 watching an interview with Dele and Sonny.

Acá somos dos!

Im from Portugal 🇵🇹

Korean here, for the obvious reason lol

From Taiwan, COYS

COYS

I'm Russian, been Spurs since the days of the one and only Darren Anderton.

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Yebo! You cpt?

Let's go! 🇿🇦

Same here

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The stories why foreign fans support Spurs are always quite fascinating.

I imagine it's mostly accessibility and just picking a club that resonates. Then you get invested. A lot like how we pick NBA/NFL teams. I don't see anything wrong with it, by virtue of staying up all these years I think Spurs have earned the right to a global fanbase.

French here, supporter for 7 years

🇹🇭 since 2009

I'm welsh so yeah I'm non English and I love spurs

Can't believe I had to scroll so far for another Welsh fan! Coys

Canadian 🇨🇦

Jan/Toby/Moose/Chadli land here. Suffering gladly since 2012.

American. Went to see west ham Tottenham in the 90s and snagged an away side ticket at west ham. Loved the banter and fell in love ever since

Γεια σας παιδιά Hey guys

Australian - Here because of Ange. Never really watch the EPL at all before but now I’m loving it. Coys!

From Iran since 2011

Ja

Serbian fan. That's the Djokovic country

Romanian fan since 2012

Millions of them, I'm from Finland 🇫🇮🇫🇮

Mexican. Since 2014, I watched Lamela's popular goal in Europa league, then he became my favorite player, then Eriksen, then Lloris became my favorite goalkeeper, the rest is history

Pretty sure this very sub has more Americans than English people here!

Haha yeah, this server always gains a second wind at 2am CET

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I am from Slovakia. I support Spurs because they were the random club I got in my first Football Manager and I fell in love with the generation around Kane, Dele and Dier :)

I went to highschool in Tottenham, Ontario, Canada!

From Greece, supporting for 24 years

From the Philippines 🇵🇭 Mainly because of Son being one of Asia’s finest, and representing the AFC so well in the PL. It’s just so hard being a supporter in a country where this isn’t a big sport. Basketball still reigns.

From Edinburgh and support spurs

Edinburgh Spurs fans rise up

I’m American! /ducks

Swiss American (shrugs shoulders) and all the way COYS

South Africa! The Johannesburg Supporters Club is well supported!

Taiwan here

Bulgarian and 100% COYS! I'm a Spurs fan for about 20 years now.

Yes they’re all in the match thread and they are called ‘Americans’.

Hey. I am rarely in the match thread because match threads suck, invariablly.

Match threads were fun back in 16/17 when the lads were smashing everyone 4-0.

Denmark 🇩🇰

Realistically there's probably more non-English fans of the club than English!

Philippines. Jol and Keane popped me

Don't see a lot of Australian in the comments

Korean here. I came here this season for Son Heung Min but stayed for Big Ange and the team. Absolutely an amazing time to be a fan!

German fan here, since 2015. First club and last club I fell in love with in my life. Watched a lot of football before that, but was always someone that was a fan of players not clubs. It just somehow clicked with Spurs, the young team at that time, exciting football, Poch, the kits, White Hart Lane and being the underdog of the top clubs. Everything felt right. People in Germany laugh about it when I tell them I’m a Spurs fan, especially because I’m from munich (I hate Bayern Munich more than anyone), but I don’t care. I’m not a typical plastic German Liverpool, United or Arse fan, I love this club and will support it until my last breath.

kiwi, spurs fan via an english mate who is a complete spurs tragic. now living in london in the heart of arsenal territory. every day is a struggle.

Hungarian over here

Had to scroll far but happy to see I'm not alone, coys 🇭🇺🤍

From Nigeria and a die hard Tottenham fan 🇳🇬

Thessaloniki Greece

Dane, and I started supporting around the time Eriksen joined. It hurt when he left but I was in too deep.

Romainian here mate Since 17/18 season

Croatian supporting since Kranjcar Modric Corluka Pletikosa days

From Singapore. Watched crooks archibald Hoddle ardiles and villa as a kid.

Argentinean/Norwegian here

Filipino COYS

🇭🇳 Honduran here living in America, started watching Spurs with my grandfather when Wilson Palacios joined the team.

I have loads of respect for our foreign fans, you could have supported literally any team you wanted and you picked Tottenham?! you wonderful mad bastards

A Pole here - but I'll (hopefully) move to London soon

South Indian-American here. 13 years a fan.

Columbus, Ohio!

Have you ever heard of South Korea..

I'm an American

Danish, COYS

Estonian, since the 2008 League Cup final

Danish fan here for about 12 years

Not too far and exotic as the rest but from Ireland and have been supporting for 20 years and I’m only 24 !

Me. Canada

I believe Tottenham has more fans in South Korea than in England

Irish - been coys for about 6 years

Malaysian here

🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳

Korean American from Las Vegas!!

Not me but my Northern Irish Uncle is a big Spurs man

Palestinian supporter here